Category Archives: Road-trip

The best way to enjoy Iceland during summer is to rent a car. It’s a fantastic way to experience Iceland in freedom and flexibility. Route 1, also called the “Ring Road”, is a national road in Iceland that runs around the island and connects the most habited parts of the country. Renting a car is...

We continued on road F26 before taking road F208 and F224 towards the camping area of Landmannalaugar. The F208 is so bumpy that only a 4×4 can really drive there. With our Jimny, we really struggled, it took us at least 2 hours to do 20 km 🙂 It was very dusty and the...

What would be a summer trip to Iceland without a visit of the famous Landmannalaugar !? We were very excited to head to Landmannalaugar to see all the wonderful famous colours that can be found over there. On our way, we stopped briefly to enjoy a viewpoint of the Þjórsárdalur valley. The clouds had...

That day, we explored the Golden circle and our first stop was at Þingvellir National Park. The park contains the largest natural lake of Iceland, Þingvallavatn and the well-known Almannagja Fissure, the boundary of the North-America Tectonic Plate. We also stopped at Oxararfoss Waterfall. The base of the waterfall is filled with rocks and...

The weather was not much better than the day before, and according to the Icelandic forecast website, it was going to be like this for several days in a row in the Snæfellsnes peninsula. Instead of waiting for a sun that wasn’t going to come out, we decided to take our chance a bit...

We left the magical Westfjords behind us and headed South. We took back road 60 then road 54 leading to Snaefellsnes Peninsula, often considered as an “Iceland in Miniature”, as many national sights can be found in this unique area. We went there during our previous trip to Iceland that took place in winter...

From far away, we could see the iconic Dynjandi waterfall we were trying to reach. When driving in and out the fjords, everything looked so close but in fact, it took us some time to reach it. It was roughly situated at 45 minutes from Þingeyri. The waterfall came from Dynjandisá river, a glacial...

All the planning of this trip was perfect until that day. We shouldn’t have slept in Ísafjörður, but continued to Bíldudalur. I changed the itinerary a few weeks before heading to Iceland, but didn’t update my road book.. such a noob error. Damn it, that was a 4 hours mistake that ruined a bit...

We took road 633, then 61, and after half an hour of going in and out around the fjords, we stopped briefly in Litlibaer, a little historic farm house that was built in 1895. There was a sign outside explaining the history of the place. It was possible to buy coffee and home-made jam....

I was telling you in my previous post that Heydalur was wonderful, and I have to insist again about that ! This place was delightful !!! We arrived in late afternoon and we met this adorable Arctic fox in the parking lot. One employee told us that some hunters killed the mum by mistake, and that...